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John Worboys began to cry, fake tears accompanied by a fake admission of regret. The members of the Parole Board panel and three senior qualified forensic psychologists would fall for it.

Worboys, perhaps Britain’s most prolific sex offender, had conned the lot of them into authorising his release following a parole hearing at the end of last year.

What’s more, the so-called ‘black cab rapist’ responsible for more than 100 sex attacks was aided and abetted in his bid for freedom by the failures of officials working for the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

Their job was to probe Worboys’ claims of reform and expose lies told at the hearing and to psychologists. It has now emerged that Worboys’ sanitised...